79: Chapter 79: The Mysterious Statue 79: Chapter 79: The Mysterious Statue Zhang Xiaoman’s hand stretched out towards the statue suddenly stopped mid-air, and he was instantly enveloped by a hair-raising sensation.
He suddenly leaped backward and took several steps back, “thump thump thump,” before he finally stopped.
“What’s wrong?” Lin Sisi asked with curiosity as she felt the movement at her side.
Cold sweat slipped down Zhang Xiaoman’s face as he moved his lips slightly and asked in a low voice,
“If there are no statues in your house… then where did this stone sculpture in the corner come from…”
Upon hearing this, Lin Sisi’s expression gradually shifted from confusion to surprise, and then she began to panic.
We have never had a statue in our house, never!”
At that moment, Zhang Xiaoman could no longer afford to say anything more to her because just then, he had felt the statue in front of him move slightly.
Although the movement was very subtle, he still noticed it.
It was a huge statue, nearly as tall as a person, and the entire statue looked like a gigantic human face.
Although it was large and quite eye-catching, there was nothing else particularly special about it.
Therefore, when Zhang Xiaoman first came in, he had only given it a few extra glances and did not pay much attention to it.
But now, he finally understood that the weirdness in Lin Sisi’s house was not just in one place!
This mysteriously appearing statue was evidently another unknown frightful monster!
As if knowing that its disguise had been seen through, the statue in the corner suddenly moved again, this time more noticeably than before, and Zhang Xiaoman could clearly see its movement.
Following that, a sound of stones being compressed against each other could be heard as the statue moved forward, and flakes of stone began to fall off its surface.
As its movements increased, the external stone fell off layer by layer, soon revealing the deep brown skin underneath.
Zhang Xiaoman only had time to say this to Lin Sisi beside him before he waved his hand and activated the Sand Soldier Appearance skill.
His energy value had just reached 30 after absorbing the Wandering Spirit, which was just enough for him to summon two Sand Soldiers.
As the skill was activated, dust rose from the floor tiles of Lin Sisi’s home and the soil in the courtyard.
Even the fragments falling from the stone monster began to levitate, and then all converged in front of Zhang Xiaoman, slowly solidifying into two towering figures clad in armor.
The execution of the Summon Sand Soldier skill was not slow.
Although there was a process of reconstitution and convergence, it only took about seven or eight seconds in total.
Compared to that, the preparation time for the stone monster was much longer.
At that moment, most of its body was still trapped in the stone, with only a small portion of its true face exposed.
Yet, even just this small exposed part was enough to make one’s skin crawl.
The visible lower half of the stone statue revealed a face with deep brown skin, riddled with pus-filled sores, with sagging eyelids hanging long, and pale pupils staring unblinkingly at Zhang Xiaoman in front of it.
Zhang Xiaoman clenched his teeth and commanded the two Sand Soldiers to attack first.
He had none of that decorum of waiting for an ultimate fighter to prepare before engaging in combat.
Moreover, since this creature was such a terrifying and bizarre monster, he would not even consider talking to it about the “morals of the martial world.”
The two Sand Soldiers, at the command of Zhang Xiaoman, raised their long spears and fiercely thrust them towards the exposed skin of the monster.
One attacked the monster from the front, aiming for its eyes, while the other stabbed at the monster’s massive skull from the side.
Clearly, the advantage of striking first was quite obvious.
The Sand Soldier that struck from the front pierced the monster’s right eye with its spear, instantly causing a greenish-yellow liquid to flow out, and the monster immediately let out a scream of agony.
However, it was a bit regrettable that the Sand Soldier attacking the monster’s head from the right did not succeed; its spear only penetrated the outer layer of the monster’s skin before it could go no further, seemingly blocked by the hard skull inside.
Zhang Xiaoman immediately realized that this creature’s weakness must be in its eyes!
However, the monster obviously wasn’t just going to take the hits; right after its eye was severely damaged, it immediately started shaking violently, discarding its previously sluggish demeanor.
It suddenly shattered the rocks beside its body and stretched out two scythe-like arms from behind its head, swiftly attacking the Sand Soldier in front of it.
The Sand Soldier, caught off guard, quickly dodged to the side, not even having time to pull out the long spear stuck in the monster’s eye.
Even so, its reaction was a beat too slow, and one of its arms was instantly severed by the monster, thudding onto the ground.
It was then that Zhang Xiaoman finally got a clear look at the monster’s appearance.
In the middle of its massive head was a mouth with three layers of mandibles, eerily resembling an insect’s jaws.
Besides the two scythe-like arms extending from its back, its “neck” was also adorned with seven or eight short bug legs, and when its body stretched out, it instantly grew from about 1.5 meters to over two meters tall.
Overall, its appearance resembled a grotesque creature that merged a human face with insect limbs.
Zhang Xiaoman merely glanced at it and quickly ordered the Sand Soldiers to continue attacking; he didn’t have time to admire this creature’s majestic appearance as the pressing task was to kill it first.
Although this monster was formidable, the two Sand Soldiers were also strong, especially since they were enhanced by Zhang Xiaoman’s three points of spiritual power, making them stronger than before.
After several rounds of skirmishing, the one-armed Sand Soldier was desperately holding the monster’s left arm while another pierced its other arm with a spear, temporarily creating a deadlock among the three parties.
At this moment, Zhang Xiaoman also came to his senses, realizing that his two Sand Soldiers were only evenly matched with this monster, or perhaps slightly weaker.
He could not hesitate now and had to make a quick decision.
He glanced at Lin Sisi, who was crouching on the ground shivering, and couldn’t help but shake his head, his resolve hardening.
At least for now, it wasn’t time to run.
He steeled himself and slowly approached the monster, then stretched out his hand, grasped the long spear embedded in its left eye, and pushed it deeper.
However, to his disappointment, things didn’t go as he had imagined; as soon as he thrust the long spear, it seemed to be blocked by some hard object and could not advance further.
“That must be some kind of bone similar to a cheekbone,” he guessed.
However, after this painful attack, the monster immediately burst out with even greater strength, and it looked like the two Sand Soldiers were about to lose their grip.
Zhang Xiaoman was desperately anxious; he pulled out his pistol and gave the creature two close-range Holy Water Bullets, but they had no effect, indicating it was not within the suppression system of Holy Water.
As Zhang Xiaoman was at a loss, he suddenly saw the other eye of the monster staring intently at him.
An idea flashed through his mind, and he quickly pulled out the long spear, then stabbed it towards the monster’s other eye.
“If I can’t stab you to death, then I’ll just blind both your eyes!”